Description
The average. It’s a simple enough calculation: add up all your data points and divide by the total number points. Does this simple equation work if you are, for instance, calculating the global…
Summary
- Why area-weighting your data is important The average.
- The traditional mean is just a special case of the weighted mean where each weight is equal to 1.
- If the grid cell area is not provided the code below will facilitate calculating an area grid.
- In summary, area-weighting is the correct and best way to calculate global averages if you have a spatially complete gridded dataset.